Enigmarch 2026, Day 1: SEASON

[tahnan]

Oh god it's March again! You know what that means!

We're starting with "list of clues", because I haven't the energy for anything fancier.

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Spice Bland

The ten dishes at the top didn't come out very well and need seasoning. I'd recommend sprinkling something on them, which will get you the much better dishes at the bottom.

1. A serious enthusiast, sometimes verging on extremist [1]


2. Digestive liquid (or humour) found in the gallbladder [6]


3. D&D spellcaster, though only in the second edition [1]


4. Online invitation website [3]


5. Trig function used to measure vector similarity [2]


6. Apiece [7]


7. Sulked [6]


8. Structural part of a boat [3]


9. Hills of sand [8]


10. TV series with Billy Porter as an emcee in the New York ball culture [4]

• Arabic-derived name for Ptolemy's "Mathematical Treatise" (8)


• Assumed something to be true as a starting point (10)


• Band whose lead singer, Dan Smith, was born on July 14 (8)


• "Canvas" for a fresco (7)


• Colombia has two, separated by Panama (in contrast to Ecuador's one and Bolivia's zero) (10)


• Group in which Matthias replaced a missing member in the fifth book (8)


• Hovers without means of support (9)


• Like literature with elves and magic (or, per Jacques, like a musician's melancholy) (11)


• Showing no fear, like a Divergent faction (9)


• With nothing but bones remaining (8)

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And of course the traditional answer checker.

Comments

[lorelei]

Well that was a fun half-hour! Took me a couple of clues to figure out what was going on because I'm bad at counting, apparently.